Reading University Caving Club 
Below are details of trips that RUCC are running, along with an outline of what you need to bring.
Upcoming Caving Trips and Events
See our calendar below containing details of our trips and other upcoming club events:
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Thu 22nd Sep 6:00pm 7:00pm | Presentation For Freshers A meet and great for all intrested in joining us at RUCC. Will involve a PowerPoint presentation, Q and A and pub afterwards link to Facebook event (You may need to be signed up to Facebook to see the events. If you are having trouble please email us)  Humss G74 |
Sun 25th Sep 7:00am 5:00pm | Sunday Day Trip We are having day trips to the Mendips at the weekend following the Freshers Fayre. Clicking attending on this event is not enough. Please get in touch to make sure you get a space. In order to garrenty your place £10 is required to cover transport and kit costs. Or just come and see us at the Fayre (Thursday 22nd 11am-4pm) and at the presenation link to Facebook event (You may need to be signed up to Facebook to see the events. If you are having trouble please email us) |
Fri 30th Sep 7:00pm to Sun 2nd Oct 8:00pm | First trip Of The Year- Wales So our first trip of the year is to South Wales! Lots of fresher-friendly options planned. Please sign up to come, the more the merrier! link to Facebook event (You may need to be signed up to Facebook to see the events. If you are having trouble please email us) South Wales Caving Club, Penwyllt, SA9 1GQ |
Fri 21st Oct 10:00am to Sun 23rd Oct 1:00pm | Second Trip of Term - Mendips - Belfry Second trip of term to the Mendip hills (Near Bristol). The Belfry, Wells Road, Priddy |
Fri 4th Nov 6:00pm to Sun 6th Nov 11:00pm | Fireworks Weekend - Mendips - Belfry The Bristol Exploration Club aka BEC (motto: 'Everything to Excess') are holding their annual Guy Fawkes Night party at their bunkhouse in the Mendip Hills. It's a prime location for caving by day, and by night you can reasonably expect to see something you haven't seen before. Come on, it'll be a blast! A presentation on a recent BEC expedition to the Philipinnes is planned for Saturday, with some Philipino food too! link to Facebook event (You may need to be signed up to Facebook to see the events. If you are having trouble please email us) The Belfry, Wells Road, Priddy, BA5 3AU |
Fri 25th Nov 11:00pm to Sun 27th Nov 2:00am | RUCC @ CHECC - Mendip - Fernhill Farm Fernhill Farm, Cheddar Road, Somerset BS40 6LD Compton Martin |
Sat 21st Jan to Sun 22nd Jan all day | whitewalls |
Sat 28th Jan all day | day trip |
Sat 18th Feb to Sun 19th Feb all day | derbyshire |
Sat 4th Mar to Sun 5th Mar all day | S CHECC |
Sat 18th Mar to Sun 19th Mar all day | Yorkshire YSS ? |
About Our Trips
If you want to go on any of the trips, please let our secretary or president know. We may charge a deposit or ask you to make a full upfront payment to confirm your place prior to our trips, as they can be very popular.
For day trips, we usually leave Reading in a minibus at approximately 8am and return in the evening at about 9pm. For evening trips, we usually leave at around 6:30pm and return at around 9:30pm. The day trip or evening trip fee covers all transport, equipment, and any cave entrance fees.
For weekend trips, we usually leave Reading in a minibus at approximately 6pm on a Friday evening and return late on a Sunday, so it’s a pretty intensive weekend, but great fun. The weekend trip fee includes accommodation, travel, equipment, breakfast and Saturday dinner.
Trips will normally start from our tackle store, near Wessex Hall.
If you want to join us or have some questions, then please come to one of our regular pub meet-ups and sign up – please see our Instagram page, our Facebook group or the calendar above for the location of our next pub night. To accompany us you need to have Club membership (£15 for students and £20 for non students) and Reading Students’ Union Sports Federation insurance (prices from £18 per year).
What to Bring
Caving Abroad
Our more enthusiastic members sometimes go caving further afield… In recent years, we’ve enjoyed some fantastic caving (along with various other activities such as hiking, rock climbing, via ferrata and swimming) on club trips to Southern France, Ireland, and Austria.
If you are really keen, there are even opportunities to join the Dachstein Caving Expedition and/or the CUCC Expo in Austria – and explore some of the deepest, most exciting, and least visited caves in the world!
If you’d be interested in going on one of these trips and/or expeditions abroad, or would like to know more, please get in touch with our committee, and we can provide you with all the details.
In previous years our club has travelled even further afield – travelling as far as Spain, Romania, Slovenia and China to see some truly spectacular caves! To read more about some of these historic expeditions, please see our old site…